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by biotopia
889 days ago
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The problem with China is that they got old and demographically smaller, and decided to pick a fight alongside Russia against Europe and US, before they got rich or at least above poverty level. China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty In his article for the business outlet Yicai, Li cited data from a 2021 research paper by the China Institute of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University, which placed the number of people living on less than 2,000 yuan ($300) a month at 964 million, or nearly 70 percent of the population. https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-... China's population drops for second year, with record low birth rate The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people in China dropped by 2.08 million, or 0.15%, to 1.409 billion in 2023. New births fell 5.7% to 9.02 million and the birth rate was a record low 6.39 births per 1,000 people, down from a rate of 6.77 births in 2022. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-population-drops-... |
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